Tangipahoa News

A Tangipahoa Parish deputy is behind bars after he was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration for intent to distribute crack cocaine.

During a four-day investigation with undercover officers posing online as children, four men were arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from minors over the Internet, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office reported Monday.

This year's goal is 30,000 uniforms to assist 16,000 children. It will take $250,000 to provide each of them with two new uniforms.

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office arrested two men on Thursday and charged them with aggravated burglary to a relative.

The basic issue is, around the Tangipahoa Parish School System, roughly half the students are white - 52 percent - and roughly half are black - 48 percent.

City-parish officials are advising area residents to use insect repellant, eliminate standing water that can breed mosquitoes, and take other precautions as the peak season approaches for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases.

Farmers across the state of Louisiana have been experiencing extreme crop loss because of lack of rain.

NATALBANY, La. - State police say a 51-year-old Meraux man was killed when he ran a stop sign and slammed into a pickup truck in Tangipahoa Parish.

NEW ORLEANS - A Tangipahoa Parish man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for his part in a botched attempt to cook methamphetamine that blew up a Tickfaw trailer and killed one person more than two years ago.

Traffic accidents claimed the lives of two New Orleans area people Sunday, authorities reported.

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards says a woman shot and killed her husband.

The extreme heat and lack of rain have led to low water pressure in parts of Tangipahoa Parish, and officials have issued restrictions on water usage.

The investigation into the drowning of a five-year-old child in the Tangipahoa River continues after her mother was arrested on drug charges and many questions still surround the circumstances of the incident, which happened in the water off Carpenter's Landing in Hammond Wednesday night.

Tangipahoa deputies are looking for two suspects who allegedly were involved in an April drive-by shooting.

A federal judge is expected to decide Monday if a plan by the Tangipahoa Public School System meets federal requirements.

A man wanted in the fatal shooting of his estranged girlfriend in Hammond was caught this morning after a traffic stop in Arizona, Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's deputies reported.

The Tangipahoa Parish Council decided Monday to consider proposed changes to building code requirements on new construction projects for separate monitoring of building, mechanical, electrical and plumbing work.

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It looks like it will take a little longer to settle a 44-year-old school desegregation case in one Northshore parish.

A federal judge in New Orleans is expected to consider arguments Monday about whether to accept a nearly $200 million Tangipahoa Parish School Board proposal to desegregate public schools.